Amazing Things

Amazing Things
Studio album by Runrig
Released	1993
Recorded	Castlesound Studios, Pentcaitland, Scotland
Genre	Celtic rock
Length	57:40
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Chris Harley
Runrig chronology
The Big Wheel (1991) Amazing Things (1993) Mara (1995)

Amazing Things is a 1993 album, the eighth by Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig. Amazing Things was ranked the #3 best album of the 1990s in the music review column The War Against Silence by Glenn McDonald: "The most life-affirming album ever made. Maybe the most life-affirming art work ever made."

The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial near Langholm created by sculptor Jake Harvey.

The cover features a close-up photo of the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial near Langholm created by sculptor Jake Harvey.

Track listing

1. "Amazing Things" - 4:18
2. "Wonderful" - 4:11
3. "The Greatest Flame" - 5:04
4. "Move a Mountain" - 5:13
5. "Pòg Aon Oidhche Earraich" (A Kiss One Spring Evening) - 3:38
6. "Dream Fields" - 5:54
7. "Song of the Earth" - 4:52
8. "Forever Eyes of Blue" - 4:09
9. "Sràidean na Roinn-Eòrpa" (Streets of Europe) - 5:24
10. "Canada" - 5:12
11. "Àrd" (High) - 6:00
12. "On the Edge" - 3:53

Personnel

• Iain Bayne: drums, percussion
• Malcolm Jones: guitars, banjo, mandolin, accordion, pipes, bass guitar, backing vocals
• Calum Macdonald: percussion, spoken vocals
• Rory Macdonald: vocals, bass guitar, accordion
• Donnie Munro: lead vocals
• Peter Wishart: keyboards